ClassCastException

[Ajay Chawla]

Hi,
in one of my servlets Iam setting a Vector in request attribute, but when i try to get it in my jsp its giving me an Object which Iam not able to cast to a vector. When I check it using instanceof operator it gives me false for Vector.
Need your help guys...
Ajay

[David O'Meara]

Use o.getClass().getName() to find out what type the Class is.
It is sometimes possible for a single Class to be loaded by two ClassLoaders, and in that case an instance created in CL1 is not equal to a Class created by CL2. This shouldn't be possible with a java.util.Vector though. Requests to load java.* Classes should always be passed to the system ClassLoader so that there is only a single version of the Class used by all code in the JVM.
Try to imagine the concequences of having multiple definitions of java.lang.Object - Go on!
Dave

[Ajay Chawla]

Hi David,
I already tried that, its giving me java.lang.Object.Actually I've a web service deployed on weblogic which returns a custom object.
When my java client gets this object the getter method returns an java.lang.Object, and not a Vector.
it might be possible that Vector might not be supported and it is returned as java.lang.Object only.
iam new to web services so need your views..
Ajay

[Andres Gonzalez]

Originally posted by Ajay Chawla:
Hi David,
I already tried that, its giving me java.lang.Object.Actually I've a web service deployed on weblogic which returns a custom object.
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hmm.. you're saying that is giving you a java.lang.Object, but then you mention a custom Object? maybe that's the reason you can't cast this custom object to a Vector?